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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 14 --15, The Value of Saintliness (1902).
-- William James, (Jan 11 1842-1910), US philosopher, psychologist; He was one of the founders of pragmatism and wrote The Meaning of Truth, 1909.

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